Raghav Chadha Stands With Harvard, Slams Trump`s Ban On International Students At University-OxBig News Network

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha has strongly criticised US President Donald Trump’s current determination to bar Harvard University from enrolling worldwide college students, and claimed the transfer threatens the way forward for worldwide college students, notably these at Harvard University.

Taking to social media, Chadha wrote, “President Trump’s current transfer threatens the goals and futures of worldwide college students at Harvard and past. As a proud member of the Harvard group, I put on my colors to point out assist for inclusion and tutorial freedom.”

Chadha, an alumnus of Harvard University, expressed solidarity with college students affected by the coverage. “I stand with Harvard and all worldwide college students whose goals and futures are beneath menace. We should defend tutorial freedom and international collaboration,” he added.

Meanwhile, the college condemned the choice as each illegal and unwarranted and stated that the choice “imperils the futures of 1000’s of scholars and students.”

The college has filed a authorized grievance and introduced plans to hunt a brief restraining order because it pursues all accessible treatments. In an announcement launched on Friday, the Ofice of the President of the Harvard University stated, “Yesterday, the federal authorities introduced that it has revoked Harvard’s certification beneath the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) and stripped the University of its authority to sponsor F- and J- visas for worldwide college students and students for the 2025-26 tutorial 12 months. The revocation continues a sequence of presidency actions to retaliate in opposition to Harvard for our refusal to give up our tutorial independence and to undergo the federal authorities’s unlawful assertion of management over our curriculum, our college, and our scholar physique.”

Reassuring its worldwide group, Harvard emphasised its dedication to defending tutorial freedom and pledged assist to these impacted by the choice.

It added, “We condemn this illegal and unwarranted motion. It imperils the futures of 1000’s of scholars and students throughout Harvard and serves as a warning to numerous others at faculties and universities all through the nation who’ve come to America to pursue their training and fulfil their goals. We have simply filed a grievance, and a movement for a brief restraining order will observe. As we pursue authorized treatments, we’ll do every part in our energy to assist our college students and students. The Harvard International Office will present periodic updates as new data turns into accessible.”

The assertion additional stated that the federal government has claimed that its damaging motion is predicated on Harvard’s failure to adjust to the US Department of Homeland Security’s requests for data.

“In reality, Harvard did reply to the Department’s requests as required by regulation. For these worldwide college students and students affected by yesterday’s motion, know that you’re important members of our group. You are our classmates and buddies, our colleagues and mentors, our companions within the work of this nice establishment. Thanks to you, we all know extra and perceive extra, and our nation and our world are extra enlightened and extra resilient. We will assist you as we do our utmost to make sure that Harvard stays open to the world,” the Harvard assertion added.

Earlier on Thursday, the White House stated, “Enrolling overseas college students is a privilege, not a proper.” It accused Harvard management of turning “their once-great establishment right into a hotbed of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators.”

In an announcement to CNN, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson stated, “They have repeatedly didn’t take motion to handle the widespread issues negatively impacting American college students and now they have to face the implications of their actions.”

Harvard and the Trump administration have been engaged in a battle for months because the administration calls for the college make adjustments to the programming of the establishment, hiring and administration to take away on-campus antisemitism and take away what it termed “racist ‘range, fairness and inclusion’ practices.”

The administration has focused overseas college students and staff, whom it believes had been a part of the contentious campus protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict.